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"My view has always been that to perform an interview with him at the Ecuadorean embassy in London would lower the quality of the interview, and that he would need to be present in Sweden in any case should there be a trial in the future," lead prosecutor Marianne Ny said in a statement.
"Now that time is of the essence, I have viewed it therefore necessary to accept such deficiencies in the investigation and likewise take the risk that the interview does not move the case forward."
Ms Ny said she had made a request to Mr Assange's legal team to take a DNA sample from him in London, as well as conducting questioning.
Mr Assange - an Australian journalist and activist - has not been formally charged, but prosecutors want to question him over allegations of rape and sexual misconduct made by two women he met during a trip to Sweden in August 2010.
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The man who has made an industry of transparency does not want a court appearance - even if it got that far. I wonder why?
The man who has made an industry of transparency does not want a court appearance - even if it got that far. I wonder why?
The Swedish Prosecution Authority website said the chief prosecutor had come to the decision that Mr Assange was not suspected of rape but did not give any further explanation.
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originally posted by: gortex
Perhaps because he knows the charges are a ploy to get him extradited to the US ,
originally posted by: paraphi
I wonder why?
originally posted by: paraphi
If the US are so desperate for Assange then they could have sought extradition from the UK. It's a smokescreen and a distraction.
Good luck Julian , don't drink the tea.
originally posted by: CharlieSpeirs
Personally, I think it's not only disgusting...
But also the epitome of our current establishment, that they would fork out millions of £££s in tax payer money to protect a potential rapist.
Welcome to Thatcher's Britain!!!
According to documents released by Snowden, Assange is on a "Manhunt target list". Washington's bid to get him, say Australian diplomatic cables, is "unprecedented in scale and nature". In Alexandria, Virginia, a secret grand jury has spent four years attempting to contrive a crime for which Assange can be prosecuted.
There are signs that the Swedish public and legal community do not support prosecutor's Marianne Ny's intransigence. Once implacably hostile to Assange, the Swedish press has published headlines such as: "Go to London, for God's sake."
Why won't she? More to the point, why won't she allow the Swedish court access to hundreds of SMS messages that the police extracted from the phone of one of the two women involved in the misconduct allegations? Why won't she hand them over to Assange's Swedish lawyers? She says she is not legally required to do so until a formal charge is laid and she has questioned him. Then, why doesn't she question him?
johnpilger.com...
originally posted by: paraphi
He needs to face his accusers, but we all know that he protests too much! The man who has made an industry of transparency does not want a court appearance - even if it got that far. I wonder why?
Wow just looking for a fight with those that disagree with you huh, take it easy and have a glass of milk….
Julian Assange is set to be cleared of three sex assault claims next week after spending so long in hiding in Britain that the allegations have expired.
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In March Swedish prosecutors agreed to demands from Mr Assange and Ecuadorean officials that he be questioned at the embassy in Knightsbridge, but no progress has been made.
Swedish prosecutors initially insisted Assange return to Sweden for interrogation — a condition he has rejected on fears Stockholm could deliver him to US authorities, who may try him for leaking nearly 750,000 classified military and diplomatic documents in 2010.
On June 16 and 17, Swedish prosecutors travelled to London to interrogate Assange, but Ecuador failed to authorise the questioning, the Swedish prosecution authority said.